Here's the background: In the award-winning (fictional) show, the president's chief of staff suggests an open house event in homage to President Andrew Jackson, who threw a kind of old-school happy hour of regular citizens and staff at the White House in 1837....No actual cheese, at least in the literal sense, appears to be involved in the upcoming event.

I've often wondered how long it'll be before we take Jackson off our money, given how painfully racist and just plain evil he was capable of being, especially in regards to the Cherokees and his dismissal of the Supreme Court's ruling.

But then I consider how he felt about the US having their own government-regulated banking system, and I start to feel like it might be karmic justice to have his face slapped on the most popular bill we have.

This is completely awesome! I'm going to come up with a question, preferably involving cold fusion and the Trilateral Commission, that I want to direct to Allison Janney, because she did the best slow burn.

Strolpol:I've often wondered how long it'll be before we take Jackson off our money, given how painfully racist and just plain evil he was capable of being, especially in regards to the Cherokees and his dismissal of the Supreme Court's ruling.

But then I consider how he felt about the US having their own government-regulated banking system, and I start to feel like it might be karmic justice to have his face slapped on the most popular bill we have.

Well, he did get us Fark's favorite state. And to be fair, it was the early 1800s. People could own other people as property. Being painfully racist and evil was the law of the land back then.

I hope to represent my uncovering of the biggest conspiracy of them all: water fountains. Yes, water fountains, for they are really just a front for socialism. You're sharing that free water, just like you'd share that free money. The tendrils of this go far. Even so called "doctors" claim you should drink plenty of water. Who are these "doctors"? Who do they work for? You don't need water, that's just a lie concocted by the heads of the conspiracy. I haven't drank a single glass of water in over nine months, and I feel just fine drinking only real American Coke-a-Cola. Sure, my piss has turned black and is the consistency of tar, but that's a small price to pay to be free of the shackles of Big Aqua.

Great_Milenko:Here's the background: In the award-winning (fictional) show, the president's chief of staff suggests an open house event in homage to President Andrew Jackson, who threw a kind of old-school happy hour of regular citizens and staff at the White House in 1837....No actual cheese, at least in the literal sense, appears to be involved in the upcoming event.

No actual citizens will be either, to be sure.

I'm sure they'll have a bevy of pre-screened, vetted, and primed astroturfers on line to ask canned "questions", so I don't know how you can be so cynical.

Huck And Molly Ziegler:This is completely awesome! I'm going to come up with a question, preferably involving cold fusion and the Trilateral Commission, that I want to direct to Allison Janney, because she did the best slow burn.

2wolves:bigsteve3OOO: Interestingly enough President Obama has much in common with AJ when it comes to executive power.

I don't recall Mr. Obama attempting genocide.

AJ felt that the executive branch should not be burdened with the rigors of the processes of the other two branches. The author I cited earlier repeatedly explains better than I how both Bush 2 and Obama directly parallel his vision of the office of the presidency more than any other presidents.

bigsteve3OOO:Richard C Stanford: bigsteve3OOO: Interestingly enough President Obama has much in common with AJ when it comes to executive power.

Please explain using accurate citations.

[d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net image 267x400]read it and weep

I hadn't heard of this book or its author, so I looked into it. The first review to appear on Google opens thusly:

"William Nester's The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815-1848, poses as an objective historical analysis of Andrew Jackson's exercise of power as both general and president, but in reality is a mix of ideological judgments and political psychobabble."

BMulligan:bigsteve3OOO: Richard C Stanford: bigsteve3OOO: Interestingly enough President Obama has much in common with AJ when it comes to executive power.

Please explain using accurate citations.

[d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net image 267x400]read it and weep

I hadn't heard of this book or its author, so I looked into it. The first review to appear on Google opens thusly:

"William Nester's The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815-1848, poses as an objective historical analysis of Andrew Jackson's exercise of power as both general and president, but in reality is a mix of ideological judgments and political psychobabble."